Friday, 30 March 2012

The sunnier days are already making us (as a family) think about Carnival days. Haltwhistle has a carnival every July. The town gets dressed up (in various forms) and parades down the High Street and out on the lower road past the petrol station (the old A69). Each year it gets better and better.
You can see more photos here of the carnival. When it has all paraded past and we've got lots of photos everyone heads down to the fields where the fun fair is set up. The children adore it! Fingers crossed that we are in for an exceptionally sunny Summer.

Monday, 19 March 2012

I know I have been incredibly quiet of late and realise that my New Year's Resolution of blogging each day has gone for a complete and utter Burton. Mea culpa! My fault! Things have got incredibly, incredibly busy with the B&B, Four Wynds; my putative company "Hands-on-Latin" and I'm running around in circles. More of which anon.

You might be interested in these short videos (above) which I made with Hadrian's Wall Heritage and Endemol in the last couple of years. (I've been dying to show you them but I've now got the green light from HWH to do so now. euge! Hurrah!) I'm a volunteer guide for Hadrian's Wall Heritage. I'll also be placing them on my sidebar here on the blog as well.

P.S.: There is a deliberate (or not so deliberate!) factual error in the middle film. The Roman coins found by a workman in the Roman quarry on Barcombe Hill (above the fort of Vindolanda) date, in fact, to Hadrian's reign - and are not, as I said, "Pre-Hadrianic". Still kicking myself over that one...but hey! "Nobody's perfect!" ;-)

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I, Hadriana aka Catherine Jarvis, am a North Eastern Lass. I studied and worked in London for 15 years. Followed by a Stint as a Part Time Red Sea Scuba Diver where I met my husband amongst the corals, sea grass and sea horses. Here we are (plus two children and an Egyptian dog) in the Heart of Hadrian's Wall Country, UK. Follow us as we realise our Roman Wall dreams!
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What did the Romans ever do for Us Britons? (Click here to find out! - Superb Website!)I am qualified to guide (Yellow Badge Tourist Guide) at Vindolanda & The Roman Army Museum (Website: http://www.vindolanda.com/Online Vindolanda Tablets: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/)I'm also guiding at Housesteads Roman Fort too. Just down the road from here...I'm very proud to be on The Primary Latin Committee set up to promote the teaching of Latin in State SchoolsI'm very proud to support Epic Epiacum which has been set up to improve and promote access to the fort and the landscape surrounding the fort/farm - "Northern Roman Britain's best kept secret" (a quote by Stewart Ainsworth from "The Time Team")